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Friday, November 18, 2011

Are Pawan Kalyan and Mahesh Babu, going hand in hand?

For those who missed my last post, below is an interesting article about "how Pawan is following Mahesh":-

When Mahesh's Dookudu wasfirst hit the screens, there was no much hype (from the makers) other than the usual expectations that will be there for the Super Star's Movie and the story-line was also not so predictable - pre-release (other than few assumptions such as - the movie will have enough comedy coupled with mass elements, because of the King Maker - Seenu Vytla and their title selection). Though the timing was absolutely a jackpot for Dookudu makers to release it, they did not spent much on the publicity and promotion activities (pre-release) rather concentrated on the content and post release promotion work.

Similarly, Pawan Kalyan's Panjaa is arriving (on 9th December) with a little hype (as of now) and an unclear prediction on the story line (with some expectations on the comedy side due to the presence of Brahmi & Ali). Makers of Panjaa also have not spent too much on pre-release promotional activities (other than two little powerful teasers and have planned a grand audio release function on 19th November 2011 at Gachibowli Indoor Stadium).

Having at least 2 weeks gap after Naga Chaitanya's Bezawada and Nara Rohit's Soloreleases (both the movies releasing on 24th November 2011), the time slot for Panjaa's release is definitely very much apt for the highest crowd puller of the industry, Power Star - Pawan Kalyan.

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While Music Director, Yuvan Shankar Raja was pretty confident on his work (album) to rock the music world of both Andhra Pradesh & Tamil Nadu (Movie being released in both the languages), Director - Vishnu Vardhan is all set on the post production work of Panjaa with ample time in his hand to mould the movie as the best product in the history of Pawan Kalyan's filmography.

Pawan Kalyan who is just 4 years elder than Mahesh Babu, has 15 Movies in his kitty (as a hero - apart from the 2 cameo roles he did for his elder brother's (Mega Star's) Shankardada duo-logy movies). Out of these 15, only 7 movies were proved to be hit and all of them were major blockbusters, though the remaining 8 movies were just above average to miserable flops, Pawan never failed to guard his producers from safe zone due to the massive opening collections for his movies (Johnny being exception). Mahesh Babu also has 6 Major blockbusters in his 16 Movies Journey as hero (other than his 9 Movies as a "child artist").

Interestingly, both Mahesh Babu and Pawan Kalyan have debuted in tollywood (as leads) at the same age, 25 (Rajakumarudu Released on 28th June 1999 & Akkada Ammayi Ikkada Abbayi on 11th October 1996) and had their first biggest blockbuster with their 7th movie (Okkadu & Khushi - having Bhoomika as their common lady lead).

While, Pawan had tasted 5 successive successes with likes of Suswagatham, Tholiprema, Thammudu, Badri & Khushi. Mahesh Babu's Okkadu was just his 3rd hitafter his debut hit Rajakumarudu and second hit Murari. So he has increased the pace to mark another biggest hits to surpass his Okkadu. Mahesh had to wait for almost three years for such a hit - and was surprised with the evergreen best movie of the industry - Athadu* (one of the best movies of tollywood till date) from the Director Trivikram (which has also recently completed telecasting 100 times in MAA TV), after his three movies debacle (Nijam, Naani & Arjun) - followed by the biggest hits of his career, Pokiri - Directed by Puri Jagannadh (Released on 28th April 2006). (Mahesh Babu's filmography)

Pawan's Johnny (which was his debut directorial movie - released after his blockbuster Khushi, after a gap of 2 years) has released with enormous hype but turned out as the miserable flops in his career, and he has to wait for another 5 years (after Gudumba Shankar, Balu ABCDEFG, Bangaram & Annavaram) to taste the success in the form of Trivikram's Jalsa (Trivikram is the same guy who survived Mahesh Babu, when he was struggling for a much required hit). (Pawan Kalyan's filmography)

After Pokiri and Jalsa - both Mahesh and Pawan have created a huge impact on the tollywood box-office collections and were eagerly waiting to re-write their own records. But, Mahesh failed to do so with his Sainikudu, Athidi & Khaleja as the case with Pawan who failed to create that magic with his last two movies - Puli & Theenmaar.

But now, the 16th Movie of Mahesh Babu - "Dookudu" directed by King Maker Seenu Vytla has released (on 23rd September 2011) and the below is the result -

Power Star - Pawan Kalyan, as always following Mahesh Babu, again with his Panjaa (his 16th Movie) looking confident enough to break all the existing box-office collections in the history of tollywood, which is never new to him. So my dear friends - just wait for yet another picture like this with slight changes! Both of them have already completed 16 Movies each, as of now and increased their pace by signing multiple movies at a short span of time.

Mahesh has already started working for Puri Jagannadh's The Business Man and is excited to start working with Victory Venkateshfor Seethamma Vaakitlo Sirimalle Chettu under the direction of Srikanth Addala and awaiting to announce his upcoming line of projects with:- Sukumar, Trivikram (Hare Rama Hare Krishna), Rajamouli (Samraat), Mani Ratnam and his Bollywood Entry etc.,

Pawan Kalyan is also quite busy shooting for Gabbar Singh under the direction of Harish Shankar (while his Panjaa is all set to release on 9th December 2011)and has many more movies lined up for announcements after the release of Panjaa, few of them are: Singeetham Srinivas's Prince of Peace, a Movie under the direction of Raju Sundaram (from BVSN Prasad's Production house), a Movie from Dil Raju's Production House, Tashwa Maidan under the direction of Harish Pai, a Bollywood Movie from Ajay Devgan's Production house, a Bilingual Movie Titled Bhupati Pandyan, a Movie with Veeru Potla etc.,

Looking at the craze for these two champs, one can imagine how their career graph would be after rendering couple more blockbusters from now (may be in the form of Panjaa, The Business Man, Gabbar Singh and so on).